I logged on specifically to see if there was any reporting from Ray and was so relieved to find this article! Ray Ford, you are a local hero and treasure! thank you so very much for once again providing us with your thorough and much appreciated reporting! Stay safe out there!

Next time there is a Santa Barbara Man of the Year award you MUST win!!!

Actually, without an iota of sarcasm, THANK YOU S.B. INDEPENDENT! I, for one, tremendously appreciate your well thought out explanations of your endorsements. I find the fine print on the propositions to be very dense and open to misinterpretation (on purpose?) and the literature I receive from the "pro" and "con" factions compelling. I turn to your fine paper and several other trusted sources to help me make sense of it all!

On a somewhat related note, I was irked to see a very right leaning paper filling up your SB Independent racks in the cafe at Lazy Acres a week or so before the election. Their endorsements were all opposite to yours. I found it quite ballsy of them to use your racks. I hope they didn't take it upon themselves to relieve the racks of your publication so they could place their rag on YOUR racks.